Share your photos and videos of the Morris Arboretum. Get outside, have fun, and win prizes, including $100 Arboretum cash for winners, display on the video monitor at the Morris Arboretum Widener Visitor Center and possible inclusion in Morris Arboretum publications.

The contest invites to capture the beauty of the Morris Arboretum in photos or on video, through June 30. So, you’ll have an ever-changing canvas to choose from. You may also submit photos you have taken in the past.

Submit your photos up to 5 MB in size and videos up to 90 seconds in length along with a completed entry form and fee before noon on June 30, 2010. A juried panel will then select 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners from each of several categories. Winners will be included in an exhibition at the Widener Visitor Center Upper Gallery.

Visitors of all ages and skill levels are encouraged to show off their photography and video talents by capturing their own special places and moments at Morris Arboretum. Subject matter for all entries must be the Morris Arboretum. Specific categories for photos include: People, Plants, and Place. Categories for videos are: Art, Science, Humanities, and Education/Learning. Contest forms, complete contest rules and other information are available at www.morrisarboretum.org.

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The Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania is located at 100 East Northwestern Avenue in Chestnut Hill and is open every day except Thanksgiving, New Year’s and Christmas days. Morris Arboretum, the official arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, features a spectacular collection of trees, Japanese gardens, a formal rose garden, a swan pond, meadows, and elegant Fernery. The newly opened Out on a Limb canopy walk offers a thrilling bird’s eye view of the forest from 50 feet above the ground.